On an 8-0 vote, the Illinois Board of Elections on Tuesday, January 22 dropped the Interstate Crosscheck voter purge program. Greg Palast and the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. are co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Illinois over the use of Crosscheck, a racially biased and ...more

Today, I filed an affidavit filed today in Federal District Court in Atlanta in support of Common Cause Georgia's case filed against Brian Kemp, Secretary of State. (When Kemp resigned, the case continued against his ...more

My very first US investigative report was published by Salon in 2000 about the theft of the vote in Florida, then still in progress. Fast-forward to 2018 and the photos are nearly identical to 2000 — GOP bullies trying to ...more

Georgia state police have arrested 12 Black Lives Matter activists for hoisting balloons in front of the capital that spell out "340,134" — the number of voters the Palast team uncovered as wrongly purged from ...more

Half a million Georgia voters were purged with no notice — and their provisional ballots likely won't be counted. Brian Kemp, who until this week was Georgia's secretary of state, is stealing the gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams. It begins with ...more

[Atlanta] "I was blocked from voting for Stacey Abrams." Yasmin Bakhtiari is upset, horrified and determined. Her family had fled Iran for American democracy. But New York born Yasmin found democracy disappeared now that she's located ...more

[Macon, Georgia.] On Sunday, I watched President Trump warn a rally that Stacey Abrams, “is one of the most extreme far left politicians in the entire country". Trump's rant against Abrams has not driven away her many supporters. But voters like Rahiem Shabazz are being driven ...more

Last year, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state canceled the registrations of over half a million Georgians because they left the state or moved to another county. How did Kemp get away with this? Watch my Purge by Postcard Video...more

This morning we filed a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Our experts found Georgia wrongly purged 340,134 voters. Palast and rights groups filed ...more

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Democrat #DanMcCready supposedly lost the special election in #NorthCarolina’s 9th Congressional District to Republican #DanBishop by less than 4,000 votes. However, racially biased #VoterSuppression schemes easily account for the GOP "victory" margin. https://t.co/Vk5l0NbfBx